“In order to post a camp for abatement, we have to have enough shelter beds — low barrier shelter beds — available for everybody in that camp. So it makes it more challenging to abate a large camp than a small camp,” Braniff said.
“The tremendous amount of robberies that have happened, stealing that has happened, desecration of property that has happened. We can document a million dollars worth of damage from April 15th to the first of July,” Stoehner said. “We need to be able to mitigate our businesses and make sure they’re are safe, we need to make sure people are safe when they get off work late at night, we need to make sure midtown is a place people want to come to and visit,” Stoehner said.
Vikki Solberg, one of the store’s owners, says she’s saddened to see the evolution of the Cuddy Park encampment — which has increased with robberies, thefts and panhandling near Natural Pantry.